Item 9. Customs Decisions State of Play DG TAXUD, Unit A3 Customs - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Item 9. Customs Decisions

State of Play

DG TAXUD, Unit A3 Customs Processes and Project Management

33rd Meeting of the Electronic Customs Coordination Group jointly with the Trade Contact Group (TCG) Brussels, 5-6 December 2017

CDS

START OF OPERATIONS:

2nd OCTOBER 2017

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/customs- procedures/customs-decisions_en

(FR and DE also available)

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Customs Decisions – Production links

Systems accessible over internet

• UUM&DS Admin: https://customs.ec.europa.eu/taxud/uumds/admin-ext/
• EU Trader Portal: https://customs.ec.europa.eu/tpui-cdms-web/
• DDS2-EO: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/dds2/eos/cd_home.jsp

Online material

• Business webpage: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/customs-

procedures/customs-decisions_en

• eLearning: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/eu-training/general-
• verview/ucc-elearning-programme_en

Access to CDMS over CCN2

• CDMS https://ohs-service.pubvip.dc0.prod.ccn2.taxud/coui

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Customs Decisions System – Integrated view

UUM Federated CS/RD 2 TARIC3 DDS2 EOS Customer Reference Services EO Services External Domain

EO UI

EU TP

CO UI

CD Management EU Common Consultation and Publication Services

CDMS CRS CCN2 CCN2 CCN1 CCN2 CCN2

Hybrid MS Non-Hybrid MS

CCN2

Hybrid MS Non-Hybrid MS UUM Central

Since 2 October 2017…

• All MS use CDS/ EU TP and UUM&DS (except for

DK and NL which are carrying out further user testing with a view to join in the near future)

• Changes

from MS in the choice

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the architectural approach should be notified immediately to the Commission (eg. recent info from FR) so that the published info can be adapted and economic operators informed

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PRODUCTION statistics Trader Portal Applications

Total of 606 applications (until 23/11/2017)

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PRODUCTION statistics Trader Portal Applications

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50 100 150 200 250 300 350 CY HU IE IT PT RO SE (blank) GB LV DE EE LT BG

Submitted applications (success) per MS - filter on type and status

PRODUCTION statistics CDMS Decisions

Total of 92 decisions (until 23/11/2017)

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PRODUCTION statistics CDMS Decisions

Total of 92 decisions (until 23/11/2017)

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PRODUCTION statistics CDMS pre-existing decisions

Total of 133 pre-existing decisions (until 23/11/2017)

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10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 AT HU IE IT

Pre-existing authorisations per MS

Authentication vs Submit an application (central system)

• Authentication is done using the UUM&DS system
• Submit an application is done in the EU TP

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Authentication vs Submit an application (central system)

• Article 9(1) UCC – "EO (…) shall register with the customs

authorities responsible for the place where they are established".

• Article

22(1) para. 3 UCC – "Except where

• therwise

provided, the competent customs authority shall be that of the place where the applicant's main accounts for customs purposes are held or accessible, and where at least part of the activities to be covered by the decision are to be carried

• ut.

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Authentication vs Submit an application (central system) - examples

• EO established in LU (EORI number) and wants

an autorisation for RSS in PT, ES and FR.

• The

authentication is done in the UUM&DS system using the LU credentials.

• The application shall be submitted in LU (EU TP)

and shall include PT, ES and FR as involved MS's.

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Authentication vs Submit an application (central system) - examples

• The RSS authorisation follows the general rule of
• art. 22(3) par.3 UCC.
• PT, ES and FR shall be consulted according to

article 195 IA.

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Authentication vs Submit an application (central system) - examples

• EO established in LU (EORI number) and wants

an authorisation for the status

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authorised consignee for TIR operations in BU.

• The

authentication is done in the UUM&DS system using the LU credentials.

• The application shall be submitted in BU (EU TP).

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Authentication vs Submit an application (central system) - examples

• This authorisation is one of the exceptions to art.

22(3) par.3 UCC, according to article 186 DA.

• "For the purposes of TIR operations, applications for

the status of authorised consignee (…) shall be submitted to the customs authority competent to take the decision in the Member State where the TIR

• perations of the applicant are due to be terminated."

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Implementing Act

• Scope of the IA:
• Customs Decisions system;
• Uniform User Management and Digital

Signature (UUM&DS) system;

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Implementing Act

• Vote of the draft Implementing Regulation on:

12th October 2017

• CCC voted "In favour" (25 MS for; 1 abstention;

2 MS not represented)

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Implementing Act

• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU)

2017/2089

• 14 November 2017
• Publication in the OJ L 297/13 on 15.11.2017
• "on technical arrangements for developing, maintaining and

employing electronic systems for the exchange

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information and for the storage of such information under the Union Customs Code".

• THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU!

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Implementing Act

• Corrigendum required for linguistic corrections

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• 1. CDS improvements

since 2 October

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• Temporary solution for the Customs office list => each MS to create

role of Decision Taking Customs Authority (DCTA) per type of customs decision in CSRD2 & exported to DDS2-COL

• Official note sent by TAXUD to the Member States on 27th of October, with the steps

for the MS to configure the 22 COL roles in CS/RD2

• Deadline to setup Customs Offices for the 22 types is 30 November 2017
• Blocking bugs on CDMS/TP and quick wins on TP usability were

implemented (weekly releases)

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• Mandatory fields identified in the CDS -*-;
• Synchronous validation (errors displayed in the form);
• Tooltips (useful information to fill in the CDS (EUTP) fields);

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2.1. Upcoming changes to be implemented in 2-months period 2.2. Changes that require further analysis / additional discussions with MS.

• 2. Decisions from CEG (27/11)

Upcoming changes within next 2 months

• 1. Customs Procedures
• List of procedures to be extended with codes 80 (transit) and XX

(temporary storage)

• As per amendment to I.A., list of procedures to be further

extended with codes XR (public customs warehouse type I), XS (public customs warehouse type II), XU (private customs warehouse)

• 2. Mandatory  Optional fields
• All the following changes were foreseen for v2 (2019) but will be

implemented in a version 1.x (2017).

• General principle:
• Quick fix: the elements are set to ‘Optional’

Upcoming changes within next 2 months

• 2. Mandatory  Optional fields (examples)
• Guarantee Reference Number.

(The reference number was always mandatory even though the user selected “No” to the “Guarantee Indication”).

• Simplified Declaration – Commodity code (Type of Goods)

(As per the adopted legislation, this element is not required for SDE)

• Customs Procedure Concerned – No Previous Procedure:

(The Decision Reference Number is currently mandatory)

Upcoming changes within next 2 months

• 2. Mandatory  Optional fields
• Person Responsible for Excise Formalities (CCL) is mandatory.
• Commodity Code

(The TARIC Code [extension] should not always be mandatory).

• Quantity of Goods:

(The element is not required for Temporary Storage)

Upcoming changes within next 2 months

• 3. Geographical Validity
• When the user chooses a validity in all MS, he can still encode

MS below (field “Country”);

• Once the union-wide validity is selected, no MS should be then

selected in the “Union” validity (C0273).

Upcoming changes within next 2 months

• 4. Comprehensive Guarantee Application – Missing fields
• Some fields were not displayed (level of guarantee);
• This will be corrected.

Upcoming changes within next 2 months

Changes that require further analysis

• The following requests have been gathered from the different MS

needs.

• However, they still need to be refined by MS, Trader and DG

TAXUD.

• Dedicated project groups and other workshops will be organised

by DG TAXUD in the following months.

Changes that require further analysis

• Attachments
• Delete authorisation entered by mistake
• Notifications of traders by email; + legal issue
• Revision of the timers
• Archiving of expired authorisation, notifications, etc.
• Possibility for the CO to encode information on behalf
• f the trader after temporary failure of the system
• Application for amendment < > Amendment request

Planned:

• Guidance documents for each of the 22 types of applications in TP
• Guides are under DG TAXUD review
• MS will then receive files for their review
• Results will represent the tooltips for TP
• Update User guides:
• Business user guide
• UUM DS user guide
• New C2020 PG + Workshop in Q1 2018 for changes that require further analysis
• Update eLearning module Q1 2018

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Thank you for your attention